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Psyche 
[June-Sept. 
Guadeloupe (and Panama) : described by Olivier from 
the former; Sharp's types were from the latter. I have 
before me a single $ from Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe, bor- 
rowed from the American Museum, which agrees well 
enough with the original description and figure and with 
Lacordaire's figure, and also 4 (both sexes) from Vulcan de 
Chiriqui, Panama, from Biologia material. 
This species is very similar to obscurus, but lacks the sec- 
ondary sexual characters of that species and has relatively 
longer posterior tarsi, about as long as the tibise. The 
lateral lobes of the $ genitalia are not notched. Sharp's 
species cannot be separated either by external or genitalic 
characters. 
14. Pelonomus insularis Grouv. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum 18, 1896, p. 33. 
Hispaniola : described from both Santo Domingo and 
Haiti. I found specimens in Haiti at Etang Lachaux, south- 
western peninsula, under 1,000 ft. ; Poste Terre Rouge, 
north of the Cul-de-Sac, 2,000 ft. ; Mt. Trou d'Eau, near by, 
4,000 ft. ; swamps north of Dessalines, near sea level ; 
Ennery, 1,000 ft.; all Sept, to Nov., 1934; and we have 2 
specimens from Diquini, near Port-au-Prince, W. M. Mann. 
The species occurs in aquatic vegetation and waterlogged 
trash in ponds or slow streams, not in rapid water. 
Readily known by the very coarse punctuation of pro- 
thorax and elytra and by the traces of submarginal channels 
of the prothorax. The S genitalia are as in picipes. 
Subfamily Helminse 
All known West Indian Helminse belong to Helmis as 
Sharp and Grouvelle understood the genus 1 . Moreover, the 
West Indian species are relatively few and are evidently 
derived from few sources. 
15. Helmis simplex Dari. 
Psyche 34, 1927, p. 96 
Cuba: described from Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Santa 
Clara. Additional specimens were taken in August, 1934. 
1 Mnsgrave, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 37, 1935, pp. 32 — , has re- 
ferred one West Indian species to Cylloepus and has described a new 
genus for another. 
